Tag: blackberry
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Empresas de RH procuram startups
Décadas de vida e marca consolidada não garantem mais a perenidade de uma empresa. Sobram exemplos. Puxando da memória, rapidamente surgem casos como Blockbuster e Blackberry, para citar apenas dois. O que faltou a essas companhias? Olhar atentamente as mudanças de mercado e inovar. Elas pararam no tempo, e não se reinventaram em um cenário…
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Capitalism and the absence of creative disruption
NINE straight highs for the Dow Jones Industrial Average might suggest that all is well with capitalism. But on the contrary, they could be a sign that things have been going profoundly wrong with the way the system is working. The main driver for the surge in share prices this year has been the strength…
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It’s sunnier on the Canadian innovation front
A bright spot has emerged amid the persistent gloom over Canada’s supposed decline in research and innovation performance. Traditional innovation indicators such as corporate research and development spending only provide information on inputs to innovation, not outputs. Against a backdrop of falling corporate investment in R&D, it seems Canadian inventiveness has taken a turn for…
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Canada Has An Innovation Problem?
Canada is a vast country with ample resources, however political and economic machinery in this country are not open enough to create true and genuine marketplace for disruptive ideas. Cultural, artistic and intellectual innovation form the foundation of innovative economies. No nation can stay competitive and economically advanced while stagnating culturally and intellectually. Innovation requires…
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Silicon Valley’s immigration woes could be great news for Canada
The U.S. government is making it more difficult for companies to quickly hire talent from other countries, with a cap on expedited visas for highly skilled workers and a pending plan to overhaul the H-1B visa program. Meanwhile, Canada is testing new, speedier visas. On Monday, the Canadian government started its new program to issue work permits and temporary…
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A strategy that will make Canadian innovation flourish
Wal van Lierop is President and CEO at Chrysalix Venture Capital. Despite a decade of policies meant to foster entrepreneurship, Canada’s technology industry remains frail. The Conference Board gives Canada a “D” on innovation, ranking us 13th among 16 peer countries. They are surpassing Canada in income per capita, productivity and quality of social programs. Canada is…
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Empty talk is killing on innovation is killing Canada’s economic prosperity
Jim Balsillie is former co-CEO of BlackBerry and co-founder of the Institute for New Economic Thinking. If overuse of the word “innovation” was our only problem, Canadians would not have much to fear. What we should fear is a stubborn reliance on 19th- and 20th-century policy strategies that have nothing to do with how wealth…
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